Multiculturalism
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 16:19
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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
"Yeah, we are a melting pot, but stop separating the ingredients."
Hello,
Does this mean you are abandoning your previous position, Sir, and will soon be asking for advice about AMERICAN Flash Mobs?
--Anthony
Check mate. Good one, T.
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Thank you for the info Niki! I'll probably work on this for a while, so if you remember anything else interesting, please post it....
Or I could just bring YOU in for show and tell, heh.
BTW, what DO they call ice? And what was the worst thing you've ever eaten?
Are the teachers happy to co-operate on this? Otherwise it will probably be fairly superficial. When my son's school does multicultural day, they three things that usually occur are - the kids are invited to dress up in national costume or colours of another country, there is usually some food making that occurs, so the kids get to make food that is from another country, and they have often had some time to prepare the flags of a country. Each class will given a country to make a flag, and they spend the day learning about that country/
I like Anthony's idea of inviting local restaurants to donate food.
I had to admit it, but Rappy may have a point as well. Like your school, ours looks anglo and Christian, but underneath all that, most everyone has come from somewhere. Like America, Australia is country of immigrants and its sometimes hard to see that because cultures have integrated, but in the end, kids actually came from Holland, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy or had Aboriginal descendants.
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I guess this is more about me noticing a huge gap in education about the rest of the planet than anything else...My daughter is in third grade and the last time I remember ANY work done or mention of other cultures or even other countries was Kindergarten. I know they'll probably take world history when they get to high school-but I think that is just waaay too late. Fortunately, my kid's school has long school days, but I feel they spend way too much time having Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-Easter-Valentines Parties that are already a part of secular religious services and not enough LEARNING THINGS ABOUT THINGS!
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It's like a sardine and chocolate sandwich, mixing flavours that function perfectly well on their own and losing the unique qualities in the process can surely only be good.
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Well, I'd ask if you're preggers...but I think I'll just go ahead and refuse all future invitations to dinner now... 
Bender: WHAT? I put 10% less than the recommended lethal dose of salt...
Fry: THAT'S THE SALTIEST THING I'VE EVER EATEN-and I once ate a huge heaping bowl of salt....
The things that run through my head.....
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Well, I said start with food, but yanno, why not find a reasonable person from that culture who's willing to discuss it with them in an age-appropriate manner, and have them do so while offering a traditional dish from their culture, heck, some of them, at least the Pashtuns I know, would be quite happy to make it themselves.
What I find ironic is that even most adult americans have no clue how different middle eastern cultures can be from each other, for example some of the more conservative-traditional Pashtun, versus modern day Berbers, who most folk wouldn't even think were middle eastern if they didn't tell you.
But why not see if you can find people FROM the cultures you wish to include who are willing to help you out ?
Just a thought.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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That would be harder than you think. You said you've been to Southern Indiana, right?
There's not much mix in this gene pool.
I think there's a hindu temple an hour away...
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Oh yes, and they SHOT AT ME, but that tale for another day, also been to Wakarusa/Napanee and got into it with the local set of family and friends which damn near owns the freakin place, not gonna discuss that, but definately the shallow end of the gene, not to mention diversity, pool...
Anyhows, have you tried contacting orgs that might be willing to assist you in this matter, like CAIR ?
http://www.cair.com/
I'm sure they'd be happy to assist, if needs be I can even throw a nudge or two over past kindnesses, you might say.
I'm sure there are other orgs worth askin, too.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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I appreciate the offer, but this has got to be handled delicately. I don't wanna get shot at -or make my kid's life harder...
One of the bigger schools in the area had a multi-cultural day recently and I'm going to go there and ask what they did, first.
And I got the Backwoods Bash next weekend...so some things'll are just more important and will have to wait a while 
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Definitely a good idea, in my opinion. It's so important that we learn about other cultures, and we're not given much chance to. Just think if our soldiers had known something about Iraq/Afghanistan before going over there--not only would we have been more effective, but THEY'd have gone through far less culture shock. I know kids get world history type stuff in high school, but the younger, the more impressionable, and to have SOME idea of how different the rest of the world is can only be a good thing. I've seen stuff on TV that shows kids today can't even find countries on the maps, which blows my mind! Definitely a map! Gawd, that sounds so fun...to show where a country is on the map, then like photos of the dress, pictures and information about cultural differences, some food, maybe play some music in the background from that country, I'd love such a project; I envy you.
If you look up "cultural differences between the U.S. and", you'll find tons of stuff. That's where I got some of the European information I posted; the Middle East and Asia, I already know. Hey, if I can help any by finding photos, a cultural difference or two from each, photos of clothing from differnt countries, I'd be tickled to help. Obviously a smattering of MANY countries, including Europe, South America, Africa, the Scandinavian countries, 'cuz too much Asia/Middle East would probably upset parents as well as admin, they'd think you were trying to indoctrinate the little stinkers!
Just pm me if I can be of any help; that would be a lot of fun to research. I, too, know little about places other than where I lived, so I'd love learning (and of course, being lazy, I'd have to have a REASON to do so)
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off 
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